I Want It Back

Read Text 2 Ki 6:1-7

For the last several days I've been hearing these words in my spirit, "something is missing".

How many has ever eaten something, You know, something you really like, you love it. You love the taste of it. It's cooked a special way. Maybe something your mother made, or your grandmother.

Then you taste the same thing somewhere else, but it doesn't taste the same. Something is missing?

How many know that when you taste that something and it tastes different, you immediately recognize something is missing. you can still eat it it won't kill you, it won't poison you but it's bland and tasteless,

It leaves you disappointed, lets you down.

Your taste buds were ready for a party but instead they experience a funeral.

Now the swing that over to the spiritual.

If you have never tasted the real thing and if you have never tasted the best, you can be satisfied with a substitute, you can be satisfied with an imitation.

But once you have tasted the authentic, and you have tasted the real thing, you can never be satisfied with an imitation.

You know immediately that something is missing.

But the truth is: if you stay with the imitation, the substitute long enough you can get adjusted and get used to it.

Sad to say: That's exactly what's happened to many of God's people today, they've had the imitation, they've had the substitute and they have gotten used to it.

But thank God when you're exposed to the authentic again you recognize what you've been missing.

I can't speak for everyone today, so I'll just speak for myself and speaking for myself, in these last few weeks I've tasted the authentic again.

And I can tell you that I have become thankfully and painfully aware that something has been missing.

Something has been missing: Something has been missing for a long time, something has been missing in our churches and something has been missing in my life.

I want to talk to you about what is missing.

I'm going to start by saying... if you think nothing is missing then your spiritual taste buds are dead and they need to be Resurrected.

What is missing? well lets go to our text and find out.

2 ki 6:1-7 in our text there was a young Prophet who had borrowed an axe, as he was working the axe the head flew off of the handle and into a water hole and sunk to the bottom.

The young Prophet immediately recognizes that something is missing.

His work is ineffective.

He could have just kept going through the motions but he refused to continue without the axe head.

You are probably saying to yourselves, of course he recognized the axe head was gone it would have been ridiculous to continue working and swinging an axe handle with no cutting power, but to tell the truth it happens all the time.

The axe head symbolizes the anointing that makes our work and our effort productive and produces supernatural results.

He immediately quit trying to accomplish the work in his own strength and in his own ability. His words to The Prophet Elisha are very interesting.

" a lass master for it was borrowed"

In other words: We do not own it, it is a gift, it's not ours, it belongs to another. It is the anointing of the Holy Ghost.

He's simply trusts us with his anointing so we can do the work.

Even Jesus understood this to be true and his own life.

Lu 4:18

The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, he had sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind. To set at Liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

The anointing is that touch of God upon a thing or upon a person that produces Supernatural results.

The anointing of God's holy spirit is the only Power that can deliver, it is the only Power that can heal, it is the only Power that can produce miracles.

One of the greatest tragedies of this modern-day Christianity is we have lost the ability to discern when the anointing is present and when it is absent.

The result is: we carry on with all kinds of activities and performances that are carnal that are fleshly that are birthed out of human effort and human wisdom.

Not that it's all evil, wicked, or sinful. just that it is missing the main ingredient which is the anointing.

It's not a question of how talented you are, how good you can sing or play the drums or the guitar or the piano, or preach or teach.